The xxxBSD guys are really underestimated as far as I can understand the situation.
Take FreeBSD as an example. They have joined forces with BSDi and got fine grained SMP to their project. The SMP is developing in a fast pace and I think we can expect FreeBSD to become superior to Linux on computers with many CPU's during next year.
Trusted BSD is also a FreeBSD project that aims to be portable to the other xxxBSD distributions. As you perhaps know, Trusted BSD is aiming at 'B1' security (except for the validation part).
All in all, during next year FreeBSD will be a very interesting OS for computers with lot's of CPU's and where security matters.
There is really no reason to avoid using FreeBSD and it cousins for 'big iron' computers.
To my understanding, the setup is 2 NIC's and one CPU even though the motherboard is capable of 2 CPU's. They feed 24 clients on each NIC and gets a performance drop with 24 or more clients.
The sudden drop in performance when the second NIC kicks in looks just like a simple and embarassing configuration error.
It even looks like the second NIC isn't working properly. The output of ifconfig would be very interesting reading for me.
The kernel is to my understanding 2.2.12 which should be in pretty good shape even if there are better kernels around now.
I have myself installed Mandrake 7.1 on 2 PC:s with completly different results.
1) A PC with DMA working on the disks and a pretty modern CD-ROM. A joy to install and use. No problems at all.
2) A PC where one disk is defective. DMA is known to not work. The CD-ROM is an old 10X. Installation went very well until the first reboot. The kernel complained about interrupts timing out and had to disable DMA. The boot completed and I could log in. The next surprise was that it considered my CD-ROM defective and I could not use the CD at all. The Mandrake CD:s has a rpm with a 'kernel-linus' in addition to the Mandrake kernel so I ftp:d kernel-linus from another computer and installed it. With this kernel all problems with this PC vanished.
It looks like the kernel installed with Mandrake 7.1 is tuned towards modern high performance hardware that really works. If you have old hardware with where DMA is a problem you might need to use kernel-linus.
I guess that benchmarking Mandrake 7.1 on a PC where the default kernel works should give some impressing numbers.
ADA Core Technologies and CYGNUS would make RedHat very stong in the embedded arena where costumers likes to pay big money for first grade service.
In my opinion buying a GNAT company looks like the next logical step for RedHat. Together with Cygnus a Gnat company could develop and support ADA for the military and aviation business more efficiently.
This would make real money and also make Linux the platform for developing all kind of embedded systems from TV sets to FLIGHT CONTROL systems in commercial airliners.
In such a scenario RedHat would get virtually no competition at all. This niche are allready filled with Linux friendly techies that have zero buying resistance.
Patents is just about the very essence of an invention and not the complete story. This makes it very difficult to really deduce Transmetas real intentions.
However to me this looks like something that could be very very useful if you have a multiprocessor system. It would probably be much easier to get software running efficiently on multiprocessor systems if you sometimes can perform a ROLLBACK.
Linux has become very simple to install and its amazing how non-techies are able to get Linux working and connected via ppp to the Internet.
I often get phonecalls at work with Linux questions and it's surprising how well non-techies has mastered Linux. Most questions I get is what books I recommend and what they should learn to enhance their Linux skills.
It's in the last couple of months that this new non-techie users has started to use Linux.
The short answer is that your mom will be able to use Linux if you help her with the installation.
I guess what realy scares M$ is that most of the young guys studying computer science has no interest what so ever in Win32.
Here in Sweden when we recruit new software engineers direct from college they show no particular interest in Win32. Instead they are fluent in the UNIX/Linux environment. I have also got the impression that this distaste for Win32 is valid in most countries.
Each time a fresh guy comes on interview and passes my room, he smiles and chuckles when seeing my Linux posters. He becomes very comfortable and often admits to use Win32 sometimes for gameplay but not for any real serious things. This is a big plus and one step closer to get an offer.
Microsoft do have every reason to be scared. They will have huge difficulties to steal any new technology from small upstart companies. Their foodchain is completly broken.
Whatever ISP you are using, never I mean never use the mailbox given to you by your ISP. Don't give that emailadress to anyone.
Get a few POP3 account where they don't ask any question about you. They can be hard to find but they do exist. Get also into an anonymous service. It's important to cross as many country borders as possible to make it virtually impossible to get all necessary court orders to reveal your true identity.
With fetchmail you just drain all your mailboxes to the local Linux account when you connect to the Internet.
This will make it a real pain in the *ss for anyone prying into your privacy. Use also PGP when emailing your Linux buddies about your latest C++ or Perl tips.
Together they might completly dominate both market segments. If this happens we might as an added benefit enjoy the downfall of Microsofts DirectX.
These two companies have been rather Linux friendly lately so if they get strong market dominace this could be a very good thing.
To get the picture perfect I would like to see Matrox doing a similar patent portfolio swapping with SGI and Nvidia. Matrox might of course have to sue SGI and Nvidia to make that happen. The lawsuit seems to be the way companies start courting and getting into deeper relationships.
This is an option they have created by starting offices in two rather export frindly countries.
Expanding their options like this is a very brilliant move of RedHat. This creates a whole new array of business opportunities.
Imagine what defence related organisations and industries in Europe will do with Windows NT if RedHat made a secure version like you suggest. They would of course also be willing to pay an extra premium for an OS like that.
My advice is to buy as much RedHat stocks as you can, perhaps even borrow money.
//Pingo
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RedHat is expanding into European countries that is more liberal about exporting strong crypto.
If they wan't they can make CD-images in these countries and include strong crypto. Possibly also exporting them to the US.
Besides getting closer to many of their costumers the crypto issue could be important in the future. Most companies likes to expand their options.
The greatest and probably most known stunt is cracking the WW II Japanese crypto and keeping that secret. After WW II they promoted the use of that crypto system just to lure other governments into using something NSA could read as an open book. Many small nations have enjoyed the benefits of the NSA helping hand.
Now it seems that they are trying other means of promoting weak crypto. The more modern approach is via the Wassenaar agreement. This will have a more long term effect by killing off the development of future strong crypto systems. The message is sign this agreement if you wan't to buy our modern weapons. This will have the added benefit of NSA peer review of most correspondence.
I would like to see more of what the *BSD guys are doing. I know that they are also doing great stuff. Some is better than Linux and some isn't.
It would need an update to the slashdot site. Split slashdot into departments. One Techie department where Linux/*BSD can discuss things close to their hart. Stuff that is to heavy for the causal visitors to slashdot.
I guess the guys running slashdot pretty well knows what the other departments should be.
Slashdot Mirror
I have been very interested in using Jabber but have not been able to find any public servers to use.
//Pingo
You must now run very fast to the Patent Office before the Evil Empire snags your total outstanding breakthrough in email handling.
Sure this an absolute wínner and I hope you are lucky to get your well deserved financial reward.
//Pingo
Adobe has in the past been approached many times from Linux users regarding a Linux version of FrameMaker.
Adobes responses was on the limit of beeing hostile.
When everyone had given up on Adobe and found other alternatives for document processing, they suddenly launched this Linux beta version.
This is a perfect example of how not to do. All they have accomplished is a feeling that Adobe shouldn't be taken seriously.
//Pingo
The xxxBSD guys are really underestimated as far as I can understand the situation.
Take FreeBSD as an example. They have joined forces with BSDi and got fine grained SMP to their project. The SMP is developing in a fast pace and I think we can expect FreeBSD to become superior to Linux on computers with many CPU's during next year.
Trusted BSD is also a FreeBSD project that aims to be portable to the other xxxBSD distributions. As you perhaps know, Trusted BSD is aiming at 'B1' security (except for the validation part).
All in all, during next year FreeBSD will be a very interesting OS for computers with lot's of CPU's and where security matters.
There is really no reason to avoid using FreeBSD and it cousins for 'big iron' computers.
//Pingo
This is a story about patent cross-licensing and
it doesn't say what Apple gave in return for this amazing 1-Click patent.
Apple probably had a worthless patent they licensed to Amazon. (My guess)
It looks more like two CEO:s with a good sense of humor that met and had a great time making up this 'deal' just to get some media attention.
I do find it very amusing and refreshing that CEO:s can do schoolboy pranks like everyone else.
//Pingo
To my understanding, the setup is 2 NIC's and one CPU even though the motherboard is capable of 2 CPU's. They feed 24 clients on each NIC and gets a performance drop with 24 or more clients.
The sudden drop in performance when the second NIC kicks in looks just like a simple and embarassing configuration error.
It even looks like the second NIC isn't working properly. The output of ifconfig would be very interesting reading for me.
The kernel is to my understanding 2.2.12 which should be in pretty good shape even if there are better kernels around now.
//Pingo
I have myself installed Mandrake 7.1 on 2 PC:s with completly different results.
1) A PC with DMA working on the disks and a pretty
modern CD-ROM. A joy to install and use. No problems at all.
2) A PC where one disk is defective. DMA is known
to not work. The CD-ROM is an old 10X. Installation went very well until the first reboot. The kernel complained about interrupts timing out and had to disable DMA. The boot
completed and I could log in. The next surprise
was that it considered my CD-ROM defective and
I could not use the CD at all. The Mandrake CD:s has a rpm with a 'kernel-linus' in
addition to the Mandrake kernel so I ftp:d
kernel-linus from another computer and
installed it. With this kernel all problems
with this PC vanished.
It looks like the kernel installed with Mandrake 7.1 is tuned towards modern high performance hardware that really works. If you have old hardware with where DMA is a problem you might
need to use kernel-linus.
I guess that benchmarking Mandrake 7.1 on a PC where the default kernel works should give some impressing numbers.
I guess viewing pictures from this database will not be possible with anything else but Microsoft webbrowsers.
//Pingo
It doesn't look like there will be anything else but Microsoft software on these computers.
One shoe seems to fit all Ford workers. No Linux option for them. The fine print might even forbid tampering with the OS.
//Pingo
It doesn't look like there will be anything else but Microsoft software on these computers.
One shoe seems to fit all Ford workers. No Linux option for them.
//Pingo
ADA Core Technologies and CYGNUS would make RedHat very stong in the embedded arena where costumers likes to pay big money for first grade service.
In my opinion buying a GNAT company looks like the next logical step for RedHat. Together with Cygnus a Gnat company could develop and support ADA for the military and aviation business more efficiently.
This would make real money and also make Linux the platform for developing all kind of embedded systems from TV sets to FLIGHT CONTROL systems in commercial airliners.
In such a scenario RedHat would get virtually no competition at all. This niche are allready filled with Linux friendly techies that have zero buying resistance.
Patents is just about the very essence of an invention and not the complete story. This makes it very difficult to really deduce Transmetas real intentions.
However to me this looks like something that could be very very useful if you have a multiprocessor system. It would probably be much easier to get software running efficiently on multiprocessor systems if you sometimes can perform a ROLLBACK.
//Pingo
Linux has become very simple to install and its amazing how non-techies are able to get Linux working and connected via ppp to the Internet.
I often get phonecalls at work with Linux questions and it's surprising how well non-techies has mastered Linux. Most questions I get is what books I recommend and what they should learn to enhance their Linux skills.
It's in the last couple of months that this new non-techie users has started to use Linux.
The short answer is that your mom will be able to use Linux if you help her with the installation.
//Pingo
I guess what realy scares M$ is that most of the young guys studying computer science has no interest what so ever in Win32.
Here in Sweden when we recruit new software engineers direct from college they show no particular interest in Win32. Instead they are fluent in the UNIX/Linux environment. I have also got the impression that this distaste for Win32 is valid in most countries.
Each time a fresh guy comes on interview and passes my room, he smiles and chuckles when seeing my Linux posters. He becomes very comfortable and often admits to use Win32 sometimes for gameplay but not for any real serious things. This is a big plus and one step closer to get an offer.
Microsoft do have every reason to be scared. They will have huge difficulties to steal any new technology from small upstart companies. Their foodchain is completly broken.
//Pingo
This is just the next sequel in Amiga soap opera.
Nothing will ever come out of this.
//Pingo
Whatever ISP you are using, never I mean never use the mailbox given to you by your ISP. Don't give that emailadress to anyone.
Get a few POP3 account where they don't ask any question about you. They can be hard to find but they do exist. Get also into an anonymous service. It's important to cross as many country borders as possible to make it virtually impossible to get all necessary court orders to reveal your true identity.
With fetchmail you just drain all your mailboxes to the local Linux account when you connect to the Internet.
This will make it a real pain in the *ss for anyone prying into your privacy. Use also PGP when emailing your Linux buddies about your latest C++ or Perl tips.
//Pingo
Together they might completly dominate both market segments. If this happens we might as an added benefit enjoy the downfall of Microsofts DirectX.
These two companies have been rather Linux friendly lately so if they get strong market dominace this could be a very good thing.
To get the picture perfect I would like to see Matrox doing a similar patent portfolio swapping with SGI and Nvidia. Matrox might of course have to sue SGI and Nvidia to make that happen. The lawsuit seems to be the way companies start courting and getting into deeper relationships.
//Pingo
Goto http://www.software.ibm.com/developer/library/linu xibm and read about their skunkworks experiences.
//Pingo
When locking into their homepage there was no info concerning the glibc2.x issue. That's a bad sign.
Last time I saw some info they were still compiling against libc5.
//Pingo
This is an option they have created by starting offices in two rather export frindly countries.
Expanding their options like this is a very brilliant move of RedHat. This creates a whole new array of business opportunities.
Imagine what defence related organisations and industries in Europe will do with Windows NT if RedHat made a secure version like you suggest. They would of course also be willing to pay an extra premium for an OS like that.
My advice is to buy as much RedHat stocks as you can, perhaps even borrow money.
//Pingo
RedHat is expanding into European countries that is more liberal about exporting strong crypto.
If they wan't they can make CD-images in these countries and include strong crypto. Possibly also exporting them to the US.
Besides getting closer to many of their costumers the crypto issue could be important in the future.
Most companies likes to expand their options.
//Pingo
The greatest and probably most known stunt is cracking the WW II Japanese crypto and keeping that secret. After WW II they promoted the use of that crypto system just to lure other governments into using something NSA could read as an open book. Many small nations have enjoyed the benefits of the NSA helping hand.
Now it seems that they are trying other means of promoting weak crypto. The more modern approach is via the Wassenaar agreement. This will have a more long term effect by killing off the development of future strong crypto systems. The message is sign this agreement if you wan't to buy our modern weapons. This will have the added benefit of NSA peer review of most correspondence.
//Pingo
It looks like FreeBSD is doing some heavy stuff. Gigabit ethernet adapters sounds cool.
Very interesting and amusing.
//Pingo
I would like to see more of what the *BSD guys are doing. I know that they are also doing great stuff. Some is better than Linux and some isn't.
It would need an update to the slashdot site. Split slashdot into departments. One Techie department where Linux/*BSD can discuss things close to their hart. Stuff that is to heavy for the causal visitors to slashdot.
I guess the guys running slashdot pretty well knows what the other departments should be.
//Pingo
It wasn't my intention to offend mentally handicapped people by associating them with the Windows operating system or any other Redmond product.
//Pingo